Alice

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It’s amazing how quickly we get used to weirdness when it’s our own weirdness.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“He tried to come up with a word that meant “witch,” that didn’t have any insulting or demeaning overtones. He couldn’t. In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning. Finally, after a much longer silence than he had intended, he simply said, “I can understand why.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot